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Dancing into the gallery: Lucy Guerin Inc turns 21

LGI’s NEWRETRO remixes 21 years of choreographic practice.

22 Mar 2023 13:26

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

Lucy Guerin Inc’s ‘NEWRETRO’ at ACCA. Photo: Gregory Lorenzutti.

Choreographer Lucy Guerin has decided on a unique way to celebrate the 21^st anniversary of her contemporary dance company, Lucy Guerin Inc (LGI).

Once Guerin had the concept for the work, called NEWRETRO, in place, she knew it had to be staged somewhere other than a theatre.

‘I guess it’s closer to what I experience in the studio. I mean, I love the theatre and I embrace the magical world that it creates. But I guess in the gallery it’s somehow more exposed and closer to what we actually do day in, day out in the studio.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's former National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts